Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-05-30
Death of ssai. Zen pcriey poore.

At 1890 o'clock yesterday morning, at a
time when his case seemed most hopeful,
there was sudden change, aud Maj. Ben
Perley Poore quietly and peacefully passed
away. Part Of the day he sat up in bed,
and in the evening the announcement was
made that ae was gaining some strength.
Mrs. Poore and her sister-in.l law, Miss Ellen
Poore, had left the room shortly after mid
night, leaving Mr.. Kimhall with the Major.
His secretary. Mr.. II. w. Sadler, having
been up several nights, retired about nino
O'Clock. He had gotten out of bed and up.
on his feet, made step or two when his
strength gave way, and he was helped to
bed, death intervening in few moments.
Mrs Poore and her sister in-law were sum-
moned without delay, but death entered
the sick chamber in advance OF them, and
while it was pretty generally understood
that Mai. Poore would not recover, still the
suddenness of his taking of was not antic-
ipated, and the widow is prostrated with
grief THE remains were yesterday for
warded to Massachusetts, where the inter-
ment will take place.
Major Benjamin Perley Poore was born at
Newbury, Mass. November 2, 1920. He
learned She printing business, and when on
ly eighteen years of age assumed the editor
ia control of the Southern JFMg at Atlanta
Ga, and in 1910 abandoned the task to be-
come an attache OF the United States lega-
ton in Belgium. Between 1884 and 1915 he
was employed by the State of Massachusetts,
in making valuable collection Of historical
MSS, cleaned from the French archives.
He also travelled in Egypt, Palestine and
other Eastern countries as correspondent of
the Boston atlas Among the important
works published by him are "The Rise and
Fall of Louis Philippe" +" The Life OF Gener-
al Taylor" and 1.-The Early Life of Napo
eon." He also edited the volumes of the
Conspiracy Trials Of 1865" and the Con-
gressional Directory since 1867. He also
wrote several novels for Gleason's Pictorial
Magazine. From 1854 up to 1883 he was
Washington correspondent of the Boston
Journal, and, though residing most of the
year in Washington, he was the owner Of
an ancestral nome called "Indian 4ill "near
Newburyport, Mass. Part of the frame
work Of this house dates back to 1860,
when John Poore, bis great grandfath-
er, received the original deed Of
the lane and established his home
stead. During his long public life he
made most admirable and curious collec-
ton of relics Of colonial and revolutionary
DAYS, and the museum there contains the
most complete aud varied collection in this
country AS man and boy, he had known
Washington since The presidency of John
Quincy Adams. having, when in his teens,
visited the family Of an uncle then living in
Georgetown. One of his proudest trophies
at his Massachusetts home is q state medal
awarded him for the finest cultivated farm
within her borders. At his hospitabe board
Sumner, Longfellow aud Whittier have sat
down together, and Anthony and Burnside
were familiar guests. In all Major Poore's
career as a Washington correspondent not
Asingle statement made by him was ever call.
ed in question not once was he summoned
before an investigating committee, nor was
he ever accused of growing rich through
connection with the lobby. Major Poore's
latest work, entitled "Perley's Reminis-
cences of Sixty Years in the National Me-
tropolis," the. second volume of which has
been issued, is replete with interesting de-
tails concerning prominent men and women
in social and political life who came under
his observation. 1t is a most interesting
work, illustrated with portraits of prom
inent men and women who figured in polti-
cal and social life at the Capital.